Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Launch Discovery Loop
An AI Pioneer honored at Loeb House turns to automating discovery itself On August 5, 2026, Jeff Dean, chief scientist at Google, announced his departure after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation, where he will serve as chief executive....
AIWS Trust Rating Enters Asia’s Largest Enterprises
Phase 1 begins with banking, financial, insurance and telecommunications enterprises in Vietnam and ASEAN On August 6, 2026, Ambassador Vu Quang Minh, Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Representative of the Boston Global Forum in Vietnam, presented AIWS...
A Framework No One Can See – The United States delivers its frontier AI review process and declines to publish it
On August 3 the White House announced that it had met the deadline set by the June 2 executive order Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security, which required a framework...
BEACON PAPERS NO. 6 – Who May Author? Human Authorship, AI Assistants, and Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
As artificial intelligence becomes capable of drafting speeches, research papers, legal arguments, policies, and works of extraordinary sophistication, a fundamental question is emerging: Who is the...
Working With AI – What five assistants have taught us at AIWS Lumina Lab
For several years the public conversation about artificial intelligence has circled one question: how intelligent will these systems become? Our work at AIWS Lumina Lab has raised another, which...
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Michael Kratsios at India AI Impact Summit 2026: A Vision for Sovereign AI
On February 19, 2026, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of...
Munich 2026: Secretary Rubio Calls for a “New West” — What It Means for America at 250
At the Munich Security Conference in mid-February 2026, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio used his keynote to argue that the United...
Audrey Tang calls for AI to be trained in spirit of cooperation
Taiwan’s cyber ambassador Audrey Tang participating in an online session at Asahi World Forum 2025 (Shingo Kuzutani) Audrey Tang, the...
Minister Lin Chia-lung touts “tech governance” at AI x Democracy Forum in Taipei
At the AI x Democracy Forum in Taipei, Taiwan’s foreign minister, Lin Chia-lung, argued that Taiwan’s democratic development and...